The Greater New Haven Mentoring Collaborative, an initiative established and supported through the Governor's Prevention Partnership. The Collaborative is a local network of mentoring programs, faith-based organizations, and local health, academic, and other youth service providers working with underserved area youth.
Collaborative approach:
By mapping mentoring programs in our state’s urban areas and convening and facilitating group meetings, The Partnership helps to create a sustainable infrastructure to expand critical components of mentoring programs.
This enables programs to serve more youth by:
- Designing an infrastructure to manage accountability, access between mentoring programs, referral sources and other service providers.
- Utilizing research-based quality standards to increase capacity of mentoring programs.
- Developing specialized program offerings to increase positive outcomes.
Participants collaborate intentionally to share resources specific to mentor recruitment and training and receive technical assistance to strengthen the individual mentoring programs.
Sponsored by M&T Bank.
